What is it to be an artist? The desire to create, no matter what form it takes, can be one of life’s true joys just as it is one of its most crushing. You are able to make something where there once ...

In our achievement-driven world, we often celebrate the bold gestures—the big speeches, the spotlight moments, the accolades. But the real difference-makers are the quiet, consistent actions. The ones ...

Showing Up is the fourth movie that Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams have made together, and I hope there are many more to come. Their collaboration has given us some of Williams' most quietly ...

Michelle Williams and Hong Chau confront art and craft in "Showing Up." Credit: A24 Showing Up, the intricate, quietly devastating character study from director Kelly Reichardt, is a portrait of an ...

Showing Up was reviewed out of the Cannes Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. The starving artist is a well-worn cliché but Showing Up paints it with a new perspective. Struggling to ...

The "Certain Women" director's latest work was a hit when it premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Three years after dazzling audiences with the Oregon Trail period piece “First Cow,” Kelly ...

One of the finest American directors working today, Kelly Reichardt is not exactly a household name. Not one of her films has ever received a single Academy Award nomination, and she has never worked ...